Seydou Doumbia agent quizzed on bizarre claims about his future

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Only two things are seemingly certain with Seydou Doumbia and those are that he won’t be playing for either AS Roma or Newcastle United next season.

The striker has been an expensive £11m mistake for the Italian club who have loaned him out to both CSKA Moscow and Newcastle this season, in the hope of a permanent move elsewhere.

However, after only 29 minutes of football for Newcastle, including the last three minutes away at Leicester under Rafa Benitez, the striker has been totally frozen out of the first team picture.

Bizarrely though, Doumbia’s agent Jean Bernard Beytrison has now been quizzed by the media in Italy about rumours that a move has been lined up for the striker to join Leicester in the summer.

Seydou Doumbia has got Champions League experience (and 16 goals) but it would be some stretch of the imagination for a player to go from not able to get into Newcastle’s relegation threatened squad, to then joining the Premier League champions…

When quizzed about the Newcastle loan striker’s future, Beytrison mentioned that he would be meeting Seydou Doumbia in Switzerland next week.

The striker played for Young Boys when first making his mark (50 goals in 37 league starts and 27 sub appearances), so it could well be that he has kept a family home there.

With news last week of Obertan and Marveaux being released from their contracts early, I did wonder if they had done something similar with Doumbia as he is similarly nowhere near playing for the first team.